Foto Friday: epic cheesesteak sammiches and more 10 February 2012 4:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,bread,cheese,cooking,eating,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,hot mess,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a commentThis could have been a Thank You Thursday and Foto Friday all in one, but the alternate title for this picture was “Why Tracy and Peter spent Thursday night in food coma mode,” so…. Yeah. Also: Mmmmm.
I mean, that is just so much win!
(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday! 5 October 2011 12:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : fun,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,travel,vegetarianism , add a commentThis post cannot be truly wordless because
1: I gotta give credit where it’s due to Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com for giving me the idea.
and
2: There’s, um, words in the picture I’m sharing. But awesomely! Check it out:
Butcher shop graffiti in Coimbra, Portugal
When will I have the self-control to actually post pictures without writing about them? Only time will tell.
Recipe: Nasi Goreng (Indonesian Fried Rice) 14 June 2011 10:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,eggs,food snobbery,friends,ingredients,meat,not even vegetarian,recipes , add a commentThis post is dedicated to Allison, who wrote me back in April saying, “the latest Cook’s Illustrated has a recipe for nasi goreng, and they are just wrong. No fried egg? And the only dead animal is shrimp? Not good enough. But now I am craving it. Could you get your recipe to me somehow? That would be really, really awesome.” I replied with a link to the Everything2.com version of “my” recipe and confessed that I often cheat the seasoning of nasi with pre-made spice mixes — my favorite brand is Conimex, which the mystery Asian market in Eugene sometimes had, but I really don’t know where to get it otherwise short of next time I go to the grocery store in the Netherlands. (Clearly, I need to do more exploring in Chinatown(s) and beyond.) At the time my excuse for not making a TracyFood post updating the recipe included:
— trapped under an Otis cat
— full of Dinosaur BBQ from celebrating the launch of the update to PlaNYC (check out the section on food, website typos and all, because it’s kind of my baby).
— oh, you know, that whole pesky having-to-graduate thing
But I have pretty well run out of excuses, especially that last one, yay! So here, less than two months late, woohoo, and less than a month late for Allison’s birthday (sorry lady!), is that recipe, updated into TracyFood post form. (more…)
Monkey Monday: in praise of awesomeness 5 April 2010 11:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,dessert,eating,meat,monkeys,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a commentWhat kind of awesomeness, you ask? Well, mostly Peter’s awesomeness, because that’s what I have pictures to prove. (You’ll have to take my word for having made these super-delicious hash browns for dinner tonight, albeit with a mix of mostly Russet Burbanks in addition to the recommended Yukon Golds, since them’s were the taters we had in the house. Also I topped the potatoliciousness with poached eggs, and we had homemade hot cross buns on the side, but again: no pictures. Sorry about that.) Back to why Peter is awesome.
Despite its being almost painfully beautiful out yesterday, I forced myself down to NYU’s Bobst Library to work on the research paper for my food industrialization and processing class (due Wednesday, not that I’m avoiding it by writing this or anything). Five to eight pages on the science, technology, and social history of microwave popcorn? Yeah, I can do that, but I’d rather be playing outside. ANYWAY. I’d thawed out frozen fruit for rhubarb custard pie filling (my plan was to do the more-fruit-less-sugar variation, but I didn’t have enough rhubarb, so I added some strawberries), and made (but not baked) crust, which Peter had gotten rolled out by the time I reluctantly left for research-ville. Maybe, I hoped to myself, I could come home to pie, and then we could make those homemade gyros I’d been thinking of as our Easter lamb….
But no! When I got home, not only was the pie baked, but Peter was almost done making the gyros! So awesome! Check them out: (more…)
Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,eggs,eugene,events,fangirl,friends,fun,garden,good news,local food,meat,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,nyc,oregon,seasonality,summer,writing , 2 commentsI wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.
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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)
